Thankfully I had another bag. I will not be complaining to McDougalls because I had already used half the bag of flour a few days ago. There were no flies in the first lot, I would have found them when I sieved it. I eat what I made that day, and lived to tell the tale.

This time I emptied the remainder of the bag onto the scale and immediately saw the added extra. I lifted it out onto the counter in order to take the photo.

haha! Hilarious! Not the fly, but the above comments. As for the flour, I would have taken it back to the store with my receipt and asked for a refund or another bag of flour. Such a request would be honored in Hawaii.

As a keeper of birds with much seed mix at hand, I keep all foodstuffs in glass and poly-what’s-it containers. Seed moth eggs inilftrate our food. The hatch and fly around if you aren’t careful.
Dianne

Shoofly pie (or shoo-fly pie or Montgomery pie)[1] is a molasses pie considered traditional among the Pennsylvania Dutch and also known in Southern cooking.
The pie may get its name because the molasses attracts flies that must be “shooed” away.
In Pa. we have this pie, so flies being present means delicious.
GM, why did you throw the flour out? I bet it was delicious with the flies.

mayo – I never heard of Shoofly pie before. The closest we get to it might be treacle tart, a traditional English dessert. In the Harry Potter series, Harry’s favourite dessert is treacle tart, a dessert often found at the Hogwarts feasts.

There was a very popular song, too, Mayo. Do you remember “Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me”? It’s original wording would be quite offensive now (racist), but it was a song that we sang as kids with new wording. We didn’t use quite the same wording as in this entry in Wikipedia, though:

Barbara – No, I never watched Jeffrey Gouldblum’s The Fly. The ‘bird’ story sounded very dubious to me. Rocket leaves are very small and would not hide a dark bird like the one in the picture. I always wash all salad leaves before use no matter whether they were supposed to be pre-washed or not.